Here's a comprehensive round-up of what happened in Iraq yesterday.

Does it come from the NY Times or the Washington Post?  Nope, it comes from blogger, Juan Cole. 

Hat tip to Slate's Today's Papers. 

It looks like President Bush's cronies Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling's luck might have finally run out.  According to the AP, former chief accounting officer at Enron, Richard Causey, is nearing a plea on the eve of his joint trial with Lay and Skilling. 

Causey was senior enough to know what Lay and Skilling knew, and to probably be able to prove it.  Those two should rot in jail.

It is amazing just how little attention this trial is getting given that Enron was a huge patron of both President Bush and Tom DeLay.

It is now becoming clear that President Bush has mounted a sustained effort to bully the media out of covering stories that he believed would be damaging to him and his administration. 

Last week, we found out that the President had summoned the Publisher of the NY Times to the Oval Office to try to talk them out of a story.

And now we know he has done the same thing to the good folks at the WaPo.

The right wing is in full propaganda mode to try to muddle the fact on Bush's domestic spying scandal.

Think Progress has some important info to help debunk the latest right wing lies.

The other day, President Bush went on Fox News and lied.  Thankfully, at lease one news outlet in American actually went to the bother of gathering the facts and pointing out the lie.

Here's Bloomberg's story:

U.S. President George W. Bush calls indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff ``an equal money dispenser'' who helped politicians of both parties. Campaign donation records show Republicans were a lot more equal than Democrats.

Between 2001 and 2004, Abramoff gave more than $127,000 to Republican candidates and committees and nothing to Democrats, federal records show. At the same time, his Indian clients were the only ones among the top 10 tribal donors in the U.S. to donate more money to Republicans than Democrats.

Jonathan Alter has an interesting take on Bush's attempt to get the NY Times to kill the domestic spying story.

The Bush team is so used to having their way with the mainstream press, that they must have been really shocked when the Times decided to go with the story. 

The year-end Jib-Jab cartoon is out and it's pretty darned hilarious.

According to Business Week Online, former Commerce Secretary, former Finance Chair of the Bush For President Committee, and close friend of the President, Don Evans has been offered a post as Chairman of the state-run Russian oil company.

Former U.S. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans has been offered the post of board chairman at a state-run oil company by Russian President Vladimir Putin, a Russian newspaper reported Tuesday.

The Kommersant business daily reported that the offer to chair Rosneft was made last week while Evans was visiting Moscow. Evans is considered a close friend of U.S. President George W. Bush.

It is absolutely ridiculous that Dan Froomkin is having to defend himself against attacks from political reporters within the WaPo, merely because he dares to hold the White House accountable, rather than parroting their daily talking points.

It seems that the journalists in Washington have lost their way almost as badly as the GOP.  Plain and simply, they have been beaten into submission by the GOP noise machine and don't have the energy to be criticized by others who point that out.